[obidancer]

Back to the game: I'm a bit confused what hurt Kachina...
Was she attacked by one of the Spirit?

If the Amerindian isn't projecting I take he would be out of range for Astral attack, unless he moved back toward Vanguard's Van, exposing himself to the rest of the team.
Unless he threw a Mana spell, I guess.

Just unclear what happened.

in any case, I assume the defense roll would be via Willpower
Damage Resistance (Astral?): 4d6t5 1
That would be 7 physical damage!?

[Turkish]

Taking two take aim actions for extra dice in the action on my last IC post.  I will edit my post pending the mage's action(s) and the answers to my previous question.   I figured I would go ahead and post something in the IC thread, since VG is after the mage and Ravener.

[Beta]

I don't think I had rolled for Harry's 3rd action pass.  Assuming not hurt:

     Harry (spirit) A. attack: 12d6t5 4
     Harry (spirit) A. defense: 12d6t5 3

[Jayde Moon]

@ Obidancer (Drain roll for the banishing test)

@ All

At this time I am making a decision to table the Shaking Down Shadows games until I can actually regularly devote time to them.  I did not anticipate the amount of work it would take to prepare for this deployment I am about to go on.  I guess that's what happens when you plus up a unit from 40% manning to 100% (read: all new people) and then try to get them trained for a year abroad in just a few short months.

The irony is that once I'm in country I am fairly confident that my schedule will stabilize.  Unfortunately, that won't be until April sometime.

I think it would be better to just hold off for the next month and a half to two months than to try to force a post haphazardly and force everyone to sort of monitor the threads 'just in case' I might have posted.

I am still very interested and excited to keep these games going as I have the whole 'year' IG sort of plotted out and I am very disappointed with the circumstances that that have 'forced' my inactivity.

I am very appreciative that you all have stuck with it and I ask that you bear with me a little while longer.  We'll get the ball rolling on these and I hope that it will all be worth it in the end.

When I am certain I can post regularly, I will send you all a message, either via PM or email (PM me your email address in that case!)  Thanks for your understanding.

[Yok]

Totally understandable.   I'll PM you my email address, and look forward to picking things up again when things settle out for you.

[Beta]

Makes sense.  Good luck with the next weeks!

[obidancer]

No problem with me, just let us know when you'rever ready again. For everyone who do have the time, maybe it's time to write the background story and extra run for this month.

[Turkish]

No worries Jayde, IRL is more important than PBP.  I will PM you my email as well!

[WillAsher]

Take care of yourself.  We will still be around. 

[Beta]

Hi Jayde Moon;

I had in the back of my mind “Jayde Moon deploys in April, check in with him near the end of the month to see how it’s going.”    So clearing my mental checklist here, hopefully not harassing you during yet more completely crazy weeks.  Will set the next note for sometime in June

I hope the deployment has happened with no more than the expected quote of chaos, confusion, and consternation.  (Granted that ‘the expected quotient’ may be rather overwhelmingly large by most people’s standards, I’d think?)

Mostly writing to check in on how you are doing – it is quite the thing you are going through, and if you have time and energy at some point to share a bit of what it is like, would be very glad to read it.   (within the limits of what you are allowed to talk about, obviously!).

[Jayde Moon]

OK, folks, let's get new initiative rolls for everyone. just so I can start fresh on the round.  I realize some of you will lose a pass or two, but I am operating on a new computer here and don't have all my info :-/

Thanks!

[obidancer]

Hi, still have to understand how Kachina got 7 physical damage for her banishing of the unbound spirit. Unless it is a F8 spirit and got a tremendous amount of hits... just would like it clarified.
But excited to get back in the story.

[Jayde Moon]

Remember, you take 2x hits of the defending spirit as drain.  So 4 hits on 8 dice (if it's force is a good roll but not out of the ordinary.  Now, you don't take that damage outright, you get to soak, so there's that.  Anything else you take from that IC is what she takes from it.  So if she concludes that it was a mighty powerful spirit, that's in line with what happened.

[Beta]

I think we were getting well down the list -- I'd listed dice for spirit's third action, so we shouldn't have missed too much.

Init for Forty: 24 init: 11+3d6 24

Init for Harry (her spirit, force 6 beast spirit, currently in astral) astral init for Harry: 12+3d6 24

And for that matter, Harry is an astral brawl that Forty can't see, so I'm going to post A-attack and A-defence rolls:

   Harry astral attack: Harry (spirit) A. attack: 12d6t5 3
   Harry astral defense:  Harry (spirit) A. defense: 12d6t5 3

[Jayde Moon]

So far got some rolls from Beta.  Looking for others.  I'll try to message folks if I can.